Politics After Trump: A Conversation with Chris Hedges

Bidding farewell to the American century | The Chris Hedges Report

In this clip, Chris Hedges lays out how collapsing systems are quietly managed by a professional–managerial class that exists to preserve appearances, not people. Consultants, NGO lifers, foundation climbers, and political staffers keep the machine humming just long enough to extract their credentials, cash out, and move on, even as everything underneath rots. They are not blind to the collapse; they are incentivized by it.

Chris Hedges on decline of the American empire